Diego's Reading Blog

This story, "Strawberry Spring", was actually a story in Night Shift  that I read quite a while ago. 129 pages ago to be exact. I wanted to post about this story a while ago, but I couldn't get around to it because of "Battleground". Anyways, I enjoyed this story because it employed many writing elements that caught my attention. In this post I will review one of them, foreshadowing. "Strawberry Spring" is about life on a community college campus that is haunted by a serial killer dubbed "Springheel Jack". The campus is brought strawberry spring, a sort of "fake" spring. This spring brought along an occasional thick fog, and with this fog brought Springheel Jack. Every time the fog shrouded over the campus, a person was killed. It is unknown who the killer is until it is revealed in the end of the book. WARNING * SPOILER ALERT * THE KILLER IS THE NARRATOR * SPOILER ALERT * WARNING That's right the killer i...

By now, I've read a pretty large chunk into Night Shift  and my thoughts about it have gotten better since last time, though I don't think a can really call it a horror novel anymore. It might be personal preference but the stories have lost that "spine-tingling" feeling as promised by the back cover. Many of the stories, like I said last time, are very bizarre and sometimes even hard to take seriously. In spite of all this I still enjoy some of the stories, and some of them don't make me laugh but rather enrapture me. This leads me to this particular story, "The Ledge". "The Ledge" is about a tennis coach who is in quite the conflict with a man named Cressner. Norris, the tennis coach, is having an affair with Cressner's wife, and Cressner is alright with that. In fact, he offers Norris his wife along with $20,000. But there's a catch. Cressner's and Norris's wager takes place on Cressner's apartment building which is 47...

I don't know much about this movie, but  I heard it's about a rubber wheel that kills people. I dunno, don't ask. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For this blog post, I will still be covering the book Night Shift  by Stephen King. Right now I am a little over 100 pages and honestly, the stories have been getting to be a little lackluster lately. I mean, there's been one called "The Mangler" and it was about a possessed ironing machine that enjoyed killing people. Yeah. Kinda like that movie over there ------------> Anyways, let's get on with Night Shift . After all the dumb stories about killer rats and ironing machines and whatnot, I reached a story that I knew I would enjoy at the very beginning. It's called "Battleground", and it starts on page 117. And I don't like this story because it was actually scary like it was supposed to be. I liked it because of its absolutely novel idea of conflict. In "Battleground" you follow a man na...

For my "blog book" I am reading Night Shift , by Stephen King. Night Shift  is a horror novel that contains several different short stories ranging from things like ghosts and goblins to bloodsucking vampires.  At first I was hesitant to read this book because I absolutely hate horror movies, so it only made sense that I wouldn't like a horror novel. When my sister finally convinced me to pick it up for a read I found that it was actually very enjoyable. I read the first short story "Jerusalem's Lot" and it was definitely fun to read. It had some elements that made it scary but mostly I didn't find it scary, I found it interesting to read. "Jerusalem's Lot" from Night Shift  is written in the form of a series of letters and is about a man named Charles Boone and his best friend Calvin McCann who moved to the town of Chapelwaite, the former home of Boone's cousin, Stephen. Boone was reluctant to move there at first knowing of t...